Novelty

If you’ve been keeping up with this blog for any length of time, it’s likely that the sight of me naked is no longer shocking.

The novelty has worn off. Maybe that means you’re reading the text now. Someone I knew mentioned scanning through the blog to look at the pictures. I guess that’s okay, but I hope that’s not what most people are doing. I mean, if you’re just looking for penises, there are much better places on the internet for that. Penis‘R’Us-dot-com? I’m sure it’s out there.

(I’m having a sense that maybe I’ve written about this before. I’m at the point with this blog that I can’t quite recall if I wrote about something or if I just thought about writing about it. Maybe I should just not worry and write about things more than once if that’s what happens.)

I’m sure the same people on the facebook are seeing the posts that I “share”. That’s probably most of you folk reading this. I don’t know, though, who’s reading this. (I’m sure I written this before.)  There are some exceptions—a few people with whom I’ve chatted about this—but I wish I were getting more feedback. It’d be great to start some dialogue about nudity, social nudity & taboos, my penis, whatever...wait, maybe not that third one (heh-heh).

I’ve discovered that several people have shared links to this blog on the facebook. But I only know who one of them is. I can’t see the shares, as I normally can. I don’t mind that people I don’t know are seeing this, but I’m curious who’s sharing and who might be viewing.

Anyway...back to the topic of novelty.

I think the search for novelty likely feeds the porn industry. Porn consumers are looking for something new. I think watching the same videos (or whatever) over and over eventually loses its spark. Different people have to “couple” and perhaps more people have to “couple”...more has to become even more...bigger has to become even bigger...unusual fetishes have to become even more unusual...the unusual become the extreme...

What exactly does that have to do with my blog? Umm...not sure.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe people just don’t get enough of nudity. Maybe it doesn’t have to be more extreme or unusual to keep our interest.

I think about the “Naked News”. I’ve never subscribed to it, but I’ve seen a few clips. It’s women reporting the news while taking off their clothes. It’s really kind of boring. They’re not particularly great newsreaders. And they’re attractive women, but the “stripping” isn’t very seductive. Also, there’s no surprise, no suspense, no novelty. There are different women, but that’s about it. I don’t know what the reader turnaround rate is. It wouldn’t surprise me if they bring in new talent on a fairly regular basis. As boring as it is, they’d kinda have to. So maybe that is about novelty.

I have found that when I look at this blog or look for a picture that’s on the blog occasionally I’ll be surprised. Whoa! That’s me naked. It’s odd because I’m generally naked when I have that reaction, and I know I’m about to see a picture of me naked. Weird.

Also on this topic...there’s a musical called Naked Boys Singing. I’ve not seen it live, but there is a video that I’ve seen. [And you can find a few clips online.] I didn’t care for it. I’m fine with the idea of a musical with a bunch of dudes who are naked off and on throughout. But that seems to be all it is. I just watched it once, but I thought the music’s not great or clever or interesting. I don’t remember a lot of details, but there may’ve been some nice moments here and there, but nothing that would make me recommend it. I mean, if you want to see some fit, attractive (I guess—again, I don’t really remember) “boys”—they’re young men—singing, then check it out. (I used to have a copy; it was part of a gift bag for some benefit I was involved with in NYC. But I either gave it away or sold it.) If you’re looking for a good musical that happens to have a bunch of nude dudes, then keep looking. It’s not even a novel idea—onstage nudity (that’s another entry that I’ll write soon). But it’s something that a lot of people probably haven’t seen.

Maybe I should write a nude show, with good music and clever writing. I just need a good idea. And a theatre willing to produce it.

Anyone?